It's not embarrassing at all. I think there might be some curse of the auto-didact here, hinging on the meaning of publish: it would be embarrassing if he was

It's not embarrassing at all. I think there might be some curse of the auto-didact here, hinging on the meaning of publish: it would be embarrassing if he was capital-P publishing, as in a scientific paper. The blog goes to great lengths to point out it is _not_ capital-P publishing.